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Philip Joseph Holdsworth was a 19th century Australian poet who worked for many years in the colony of New South Wales. He filled a number of civil service posts and was also a journalist and newspaper editor in the Sydney area. He was born on the 12th January 1851 in Balmain, near Sydney, the son of a successful boat builder. It was a fairly ...
Philip Freneau was an 18th century-born American poet who has been dubbed the "Poet of the American Revolution" He considered himself a polemicist and he had the opportunity to express his views widely in his capacity as a newspaper editor. Freneau also served for a time as a sea captain. He was born Philip Morin Freneau on the 2nd January 1752 in New York ...
Phillips Brooks was a 19th century poet and writer of hymns. His most famous composition was the carol O Little Town of Bethlehem, a favourite that is still sung around the world today every Christmas. He enjoyed a long career as a minister in Boston, MA, eventually rising to the position of Bishop. He was born on the 13th December 1835 in Boston and ...
Phineas Fletcher was an Renaissance poet and dramatist whose pastoral play, Sicelides: A Piscatory, was originally intended to be performed at Fletcher’s college in Cambridge in front of King James I. Unfortunately it was only ready for staging after the king had left so it lay dormant until publication in 1631, some sixteen years later. Born on the 8th April 1582 at Cranbrook in Kent, the ...
Pierre-Jean Jouve was a French poet and novelist. Born towards the end of the 19th century he lived for a good part of the 20th and established a reputation as one of his country’s best poets of that time. His most notable work was the anti-war poetry that he wrote, often in grisly and graphic detail, that left the reader in no doubt as to ...
Royall Tyler was an American poet, playwright and member of the legal profession. He was born on the 18th June 1757 in Boston, Massachusetts into very comfortable circumstances, his father being a wealthy merchant. He was sent to Boston Latin School and then on to Harvard University where he was a popular student and a friend of the future lawyer and politician Christopher ...
Rachel Bluwstein was a Russian-born poet who emigrated to Palestine at the age of 19 and became known as simply Rachel, or Rachel the Poetess. She was born Rachel Bluwstein Sela on the 20th September 1890 in Saratov, a town in Imperial Russia. She came from a large Jewish family, being her mother Sophia’s eleventh daughter. She was not an especially healthy child, ...
Philippe Desportes, his name sometimes written as Desports, was a late 16th century French poet and royal courtier who held prestigious posts such as secretary to the Bishop of Le Puy and advisor and personal poet to the Duke of Anjou. While accompanying the bishop he had the opportunity to spend time in Italy and he made use of his time by studying ...
Robert Mannyng of Brunne, sometimes referred to as Robert de Brunne, was one of those vital scribes who lived during medieval times and did history the great service of chronicling the events around them and, sometimes, from much further afield. He belonged to the Gilbertine order of monks and was a poet. Most of what is known about this man comes from ...
Robert Underwood Johnson was an American poet, naturalist and diplomat. His diplomatic activities were intense during the First World War and up to the early 1920s. He worked tirelessly on American-Italian relations and these efforts led to him being decorated by the Italian government. He also had an interest in American copyright laws, probably inspired by his friendship with an inventor called Nikola ...
